Past SIG-MET Workshops
Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET
ASIS&T 2020 Annual Meeting
- Part I: Thursday, October 22, 2020, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT
- Part II: Friday, October 23, 2020, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT
Day 1
| 8:00-8:10 | Opening Remarks | |
| 8:10-9:50 | Paper Session I | |
| 8:10-8:30 | Enhancement of knowledge retrieval in cancer context: Network analysis of semantic tagging in Twitter Elaheh Hosseini, Amir Ghaebi |
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| 8:30-8:50 | The open access usage advantage: A temporal and spatial analysis Guangyao Zhang, Xianwen Wang |
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| 8:50-9:10 | Do news articles disproportionately report national scientific output Houqiang Yu, Xueting Cao |
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| 9:10-9:30 | The effect of press releases on promoted articles' citations and altmetrics Steffen Lemke |
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| 9:30-9:50 | Measuring disagreement in science Dakota Murray, Wout Lamers, Nees jan van Eck, Kevin Boyack, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Lariviére, Cassidy R. Sugimoto |
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| 9:50-10:20 | Poster Session (*BR=Breakout Room) | |
| BR #493 | Mapping of research output in the *Indian Veterinary Journal* through Google Scholar Kutty Kumar |
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| BR #495 | Same data may bring conflict results: A caution to use the disruptive index Guoqiang Liang, Yi Jiang, Haiyan Hou |
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| BR #500 | Does scientific misconduct retractions take more time than other retractions? Lingzi Feng, Junpeng Yuan |
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| BR #504 | Quantifying significant study in scientific development by Anna Karenina Principle Zhen Cai, Wen Lou |
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| BR #508 | Retracted papers with incorrect document type indexing in PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science Randi Ellen Proescholdt, Jodi Schneider |
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| BR #516 | Non-cumulative measures of author citation impact Mark C. Wilson, Tang Zhou |
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| BR #518 | Do altmetric mentions follow power laws? Evidence from altmetric data for five social media platforms Sumit Kumar Banshal, Vivek Kumar Singh |
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| BR #520 | The need for larger observation period and article-level measurements for computing half-life of altmetric mentions Mousumi Karmakar, Sumit Kumar Banshal, Vivek Kumar Singh |
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| BR #522 | ICSR Lab: Where scientometrics meets big data Kristy James |
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| BR #523 | Revisiting nanotechnology development in Turkey: A collaborative perspective Hamid Darvish |
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| BR #524 | Classification model of papers in predefined scientific fields: An application to Brazilian physics Gerson Pech, Catarina Delgado, Silvio Paolo Sorella |
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| BR #525 | Can you identify a research lineage? A work in progress on citation significance detection Tirthankar Ghosal |
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| BR #532 | Understand research trends in the environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) field with bibliometrics analysis Xiaoju Chen |
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| 10:20-12:00 | Paper Session II | |
| 10:20-10:40 | Global impact vs. local interests: Why China asks scholars publishing papers on homeland? Fei Shu |
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| 10:40-11:00 | Open Access (OA) article processing charges and author demographics: a large-scale study of OA authorship patterns in the United States Anthony J. Olejniczak, Molly J. Wilson |
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| 11:00-11:20 | Altmetrics for national and global security Race MoChridhe |
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| 11:20-11:40 | Assessment of scholarly books: Academic publishing through the ISBN lens Eleonora Dagiene |
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| 11:40-12:00 | Does the venue where a paper was published really matter? Yupo Shao, Zhenyue Zhao, Jiang Li |
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Day 2
| 8:00-10:00 | Paper Session III | |
| 8:00-8:20 | Mapping the Canadian library and information science research landscape Marc-André Simard, Cora-Lynn Munroe-Lynds, Ratna Dhaliwal, Mohammed Azka Gowda, Vinson Li, Yifan Liu, Emily McClean, Mongeon Philippe |
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| 8:20-8:40 | What inscriptions are used in digital humanities research? An exploratory classification scheme of research inscriptions in digital humanities journal publications Rongqian Ma, Kai Li |
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| 8:40-9:00 | Was the peer review helpful? Automatically judging quality of peer reviews Tirthankar Ghosal |
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| 9:00-9:20 | An investigation on data sharing and reuse for various diseases by Data Citation Index Yongmei Bai |
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| 9:20-9:40 | Peer-review delay and its relation to author-editor homophily Gita Ghiasi, Tahereh Dehdarirad, Maxime Sainte-Marie, Vincent Larivière |
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| 9:40-10:00 | Publishing and reviewing influence each other positively Chunli Wei, Jiang Li |
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| 10:00-10:10 | Break | |
| 10:10-11:50 | Paper Session IV | |
| 10:10-10:30 | The replacement rate of academic science is consistent over time because younger scientists are not retained Clara Boothby, Staša Milojević, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto |
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| 10:30-10:50 | Papers with fewer references receive more positive peer-review comments Shuo Liu, Yupo Shao, Jue Ni, Wanlin Li, Jiang Li |
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| 10:50-11:10 | Measuring disciplinary stance in abstracts and full texts Bradford Demarest |
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| 11:10-11:30 | Domain-knowledge-based classification of biodiversity conservation actions based on project reports Kanyao Han, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Katia Nakamura, Dikshya Devkota, Daniel Charles Miller, Jana Diesner |
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| 11:30-11:50 | On the relationship between journal fit and citations Philippe Mongeon, Maxime Sainte-Marie, Marc-André Simard, Philippe Vincent-Lamarre |
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| 11:50-12:00 | Closing Remarks | |
SPONSORS
Altmetric and Dimensions are sponsoring our $1000 Best Paper Award. Thanks to Altmetric and Dimensions for supporting this year’s virtual workshop!
ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 10, 2018
9:00am–5:00pm at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Canada
SPONSORS
Thanks to our sponsors Altmetric.com, Dimensions, Elsevier and Frontiers for supporting this year’s workshop! Altmetric.com and Dimensions are sponsoring our Best Paper Award, Elsevier is sponsoring the Best Student Paper Award.
After the workshop, you are invited to submit your work to Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, a peer reviewed open access journal. Presenters who indicate their plan to submit to the journal within three month of the workshop date and submit within six month will be offered a 50% discount sponsored by Frontiers.
METRICS 2017: WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRIC AND SCIENTOMETRIC RESEARCH (SIG/MET)
ARLINGTON, VA, USA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 2017,
9:00AM–5:00 PM AT THE HYATT REGENCY
METRICS 2016: WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRIC AND SCIENTOMETRIC RESEARCH (SIG/MET)
COPENHAGEN, OCTOBER 14TH, 2016,
9:00AM–4:30PM AT THE CROWNE PLAZA
| SIGMET WORKSHOP PROGRAM | ||
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Opening remarks  |
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| 9:10 – 10:40 | Evaluating individuals | |
| Fei Shu | M-score: An improvement of the h-index in terms of the consistency and accuracy |
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| Mikko Tuomela, Brent Fegley and Vetle Torvik | Introducing the Author-ity Exporter, and a case study of geo-temporal movement of authors | |
| Philippe Mongeon, Elise Smith, Bruno Joyal and Vincent Larivière | The contribution of middle authors to the production of knowledge in the biomedical field |
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| 10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Poster session: peer-reviewed posters | |
| Rafael Aeixandre-Benavent, Antonia Ferrer-Sapena, Antonio Vidal-Infer, Adolfo Alonso-Arroyo, Enrique Alfonson Sánchez-Pérez and Fernanda Peset | Journals’ policies of storage and reuse of raw research data and their impact in five scientific areas | |
| Keiko Yokoi | The sustainability of Open Access journals: The situation regarding Open Access journals launched between 2000 and 2014 | |
| Noriko Sugie | Clustering of library users by similarity of visiting paths using location information |
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| Lourdes Castelló-Cogollos, Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent and Rafael Castelló-Cogollos | Measuring with indicators the endogamy in the academic assessment boards of PhD theses | |
| Open Poster Session: Workshop participants can bring a poster to present and discuss their latest research. | ||
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Reading, citing and mentioning online | |
| Gali Halevi, Judit Bar-Ilan and Elsa Anderson | Are researchers reading the journals they publish in? A case study of Icahn School of Medicine Scientists |
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| Dangzhi Zhao and Lucinda Johnston | To what degree are uni-citations perfunctory? A case study | |
| Kim Holmberg, Timothy Bowman and Fereshteh Didegah | Open Access advantage? an altmetric analysis of Finnish research publications |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Student session — Best student paper awarded by Elsevier | |
| Adèle Paul-Hus, Philippe Mongeon and Maxime Sainte-Marie | The sum of it all: An analysis of team size using authorship and acknowledgement data | |
| Antoine Archambault, Philippe Mongeon and Vincent Larivière | German reunification and its effects on researchers’ publication patterns | |
| Jennifer Pierre | Assessing Professor/Student Relationships through Web Analysis for Measurement of Mentorship Impact |
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| 16:00 – 16:30 | Best paper award sponsored by Altmetric.com and Digital Science Open discussion Closing remarks |
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METRICS 2015
St-Louis, MO, November 7th, 2015
* Bring your own poster and discuss your late-breaking research with workshop participants.
** Winners of the Best altmetrics paper award.
Invited posters after peer-review
Virginia A. Dressler. Beyond Google Analytics: Using the ‘Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources’ to embed metrics and gauge use of regional digital collections.
| Ehsan Mohammadi Mike Thelwall Kayvan Kousha |
A Survey of Mendeley Users to Help Interpret Readership Altmetrics |
| Jinseok Kim Jana Diesner |
Adverse Effects of Initial-Based Name Disambiguation on Measurements of Large-Scale Coauthorship Networks |
| Timothy D. Bowman | Affordance Use Differences Between Personal and Professional Scholarly Tweets |
| Robert Frodeman | Developing a Theoretical Framework for Broader Impacts |
| Zohreh Zahedi Stefanie Haustein Timothy D. Bowman |
Exploring data quality and retrieval strategies for Mendeley reader counts |
| Ulf Sandström | Including gender in large-scale individual level (evaluative) bibliometrics |
| Bradford Demarest Cassidy R. Sugimoto Vincent Larivière |
Mapping the Sciences via Social and Epistemic Discourse |
| Jevin D. West | Modifying the Eigenfactor Algorithm for improving interpretability |
| Katherine McCain | Polysemy in Indexing Practice can Affect Metrics Analyses: The case of GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL in MeSH |
| Gali Halevi Judit Bar-Ilan |
Some Observations on the SIGMET Dataset |
| Philippe Mongeon Adèle Paul-Hus |
The journal coverage of bibliometric databases: A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science |
| Jorge Herskovic | The US Snowball Metrics Initiative |
| Vanessa Peña | The Use and Limitations of Publication and Patent Citation Analyses to Trace the Federal Government Support of Additive Manufacturing Technologies |
| Ashraf Maleki | Twitter Users in Science Tweets Linking to Articles: The Case of Web of Science Articles with Iranian Authors |
| Yaşar Tonta | Use and Misuse of Bibliometric Measures for Assessment of Academic Performance, Tenure and Publication Support |
| Timothy D. Bowman Isabella Peters Stefanie Haustein Kim Holmberg |
#twinkletweet: Hashtag use of astrophysicists on Twitter |
| Katherine McCain | Charting the rise of the zebrafish as a model organism: Persistent co-author networks, 1980-2004 |
| Hadas Shema Judit Bar-Ilan Mike Thelwall |
Classifying motivations for research blog posts—preliminary results |
| Qi Wang Ulf Sandström |
Cognitive distance and peer review: A study of a grant scheme in infection biology |
| Dangzhi Zhao Andreas Strotmann |
Combining author co-citation and bibliographic coupling analyses for the study of research trends |
| Chaoqun Ni Cassidy R. Sugimoto |
Doctoral mentoring and protégé scholarly performance: A preliminary examination in Sociology |
| Masaki Eto | Document retrieval method using random walk with restart on co-citation network |
| Bradford Demarest | Measuring identities and differences in epistemic communities in political sub-reddits: A novel-machine-learning-based metric |
| Kimberly Powll Shenita Peterson |
Measuring nursing publication impact and faculty metrics: Web of Science vs Scopus |
| Songphan Choemprayong | Measuring scholarly collaboration in Southeast Asia: A bibliometric study |
| Ehsan Mohammadi Mike Thelwall |
Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows |
| Fereshteh Didegah Mike Thelwall |
Modelling article citation impact factors using an integrated statistical method |
| Burak Özkösem | Conversion of reproductive biology meeting abstracts to publications |
| Jongwook Lee | Measuring a research dimension of academic mentoring |
| Dietmar Wolfram Feifei Wang |
The assessment of journal similarity using citation journal topicality: Results from two investigations |
| Staša Milojević Cassidy R. Sugimoto Vincent Larivière Mike Thelwall Ying Ding |
The role of handbooks in knowledge creation and diffusion: A case of science studies |
| Jiepu Jiang Chaoqun Ni Daqing He |
Altmetrics and social reference: Merely fads? |
| Katherine McCain | Assessing obliteration by incorporation using a full-text database: Herbert Simon, JSTOR and the concept of bounded rationality |
| Wang Feifei Qui Junping |
Influence analysis of core authors in Scientometrics form an integrated perspective of publication and citation |
| R. Christopher Doty | Tenure-track science faculty and the “open access citation effect” |
| Hamid Darvish | Assessing the diffusion of nanotechnology in Turkey: a visualization approach |
| Staša Milojević | Cognitive domains of disciplines – a new method for measuring domain’s size and evolution |
| Christopher Mascaro | Visualizing an information society: A network-based perspective of authors and editors over 30 years in the context of a scholarly journal |
| Judit Bar-Ilan | JASIST – a bibliometric and altmetric characterization |
| Vincent Larivière Benoit Macaluso Staša Milojević Cassidy R. Sugimoto Mike Thelwall |
On the scientific impact of ArXiv: A case study of astrophysics |
| Laura Sheble | Research synthesis: Overview of an intersection with ILS (SIGMET student paper contest winner) |
| Fereshteh Didegah | The determinants of research citation impact in nanoscience and nanotechnology (SIGMET student paper contest winner) |
| Gali Halevi Henk Moed |
The use of contextual citation analysis to disclose the thematic and conceptual flow of cross-disciplinary research: the case of the Journal of Informetrics 2007 |
| Peter van den Besselaar | Towards theoretically based indicators of interdisciplinarity |
| Dietmar Wolfram | Work in Progress: Assessing journal similarity based on citing journal topicality |
| Jason Priem Heather A. Piwowar Bradley Hemminger |
Altmetrics in the wild: An exploratory study of impact metrics based on social media |
| Judit Bar-Ilan | Articles tagged by ‘bibliometrics’ on Mendeley and CiteULike |
| Hamid Darvish | Assessing the diffusion of nanotechnology in Turkey: A social network analysis approach |
| Dangzhi Zhao Andreas Strotmann |
Author selection in author bibliographic coupling analysis |
| Staša Milojević | Citation practices in the field of Library and Information Science |
| Katherine McCain | Core journals and persistent research themes in health informatics 2005-2011 |
| Hajar Sotudeh | How sustainable a scientifically developing country could be in its specialties? The case of Iran’s publications in SCI in the 21st century compared to the 1980s |
| Bei Wen Edwin Horlings Marielle van der Zouwen Peter van den Besselaar Wim Van Vierssen |
Mapping science through bibliometric triangulation: An experimental approach applied to water research [winner of the student paper contest] |
| Kun Lu Dietmar Wolfram |
Measuring Author Relatedness |
| Ryan Zelnio | Metrics for the evaluation of the impact of international scientific collaboration on countries |
| Dalton Martins Sueli Mara |
Analyzing the effect of the arrival of new users in a social network |
| Jason Priem Kaitlin Costello Tyler Dzuba |
First-year graduate students just wasting time? Prevalence and use of Twitter among scholars |
| Soohyung Joo Margaret E.I. Kipp |
Mining social tags to explore the Semantic Web of health information resources |
| Ulrich Houzanme | Who are the most influential researchers in Library and Information Science in Africa? An informetrics and evaluative investigation of African LIS researchers’ output in main-stream citation sources |
| Chaoqun Ni Cassidy R. Sugimoto |
Research diversity and intensity |